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Pandora to the max

I subscribed to Pandora one. Pandora is my favorite because I think it does a better job of finding me new music that I'll like.
 
Kadman said:
I greatly prefer Slacker over Pandora. Better sound quality and better play lists (in my opinion). In fact, I canceled XM in my car 1.5 years ago and used a Slacker G2 until the iPhone app game out. Since then I stream 100% for my driving tunes. I'll have to give AccuRadio a try.
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I wonder why these streaming services are taking so long to update to iOS4 unless it is Apple that is the bottle neck...so far, only AccuRadio and Pandora seem to be updated...:mad:
 
alent1234 said:
Worked for me on the ios 4 version
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no they don't.

he means the buttons you can get to if you double click the home button and scroll all the way to the left. The Slacker Radio icon is next to the controls but they don't do anything.

I'm running this right in front of me on an iphone 4 and I literally downloaded the app 20 minutes ago. I'm pretty sure I have the most recent version...
 
I just checked the AccuRadio app to see if it had the working "swipe right" control bar with "lock screen" control and indeed it does! :D

Edited to correct the "swipe to the right" directions...
 
tempusfugit said:
no they don't.

he means the buttons you can get to if you double click the home button and scroll all the way to the left. The Slacker Radio icon is next to the controls but they don't do anything.

I'm running this right in front of me on an iphone 4 and I literally downloaded the app 20 minutes ago. I'm pretty sure I have the most recent version...
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Those control buttons work for me. It could be that there is a bug in the current version of the slacker application. Try exiting the app and restarting it.
 
I've had Pandora up CONSTANTLY since I got the new phone.

I'll have to check out Slacker and Accuradio
 
Is it just me, or does Pandora lower the volume of the music when you get a text message? That seems normal, but it also lowers it down again after a few seconds - after the text message noise. It brings the volume back up to where it was, but seems weird.
 
Brymo said:
Is it just me, or does Pandora lower the volume of the music when you get a text message? That seems normal, but it also lowers it down again after a few seconds - after the text message noise. It brings the volume back up to where it was, but seems weird.
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yea happened to me too, its just a small bug.
 
alent1234 said:
Slacker Radio Plus beats Pandora

unlimited skips and you can customize your stations a lot more than Pandora. and it has offline caching so i don't have to stream over 3G and i can listen to it in the NYC subway
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So TRUE... the offline caching is the killer here over Pandora. Slacker is so much more polished than Pandora... it is like the Mac when Pandora would the PC. lol This is in everything from speed to quality of album art and the song itself (128kbps vs. 192 kbps).

Interestingly enough though, most people use Pandora because of Apple's marketing towards it and their direct connection (especially in all of the keynotes)... so Pandora is more well known (most likely because its online full site is used more often than Slacker).
 
Briview said:
So TRUE... the offline caching is the killer here over Pandora. Slacker is so much more polished than Pandora... it is like the Mac when Pandora would the PC. lol This is in everything from speed to quality of album art and the song itself (128kbps vs. 192 kbps).

Interestingly enough though, most people use Pandora because of Apple's marketing towards it and their direct connection (especially in all of the keynotes)... so Pandora is more well known (most likely because its online full site is used more often than Slacker).
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Slacker is not 192KBPS.
 
I listened to Pandora this morning at work.. And for 1 hour and 20 minutes of listening over 3G.. My phone went from 99% to 77%. Is that normal for Pandora? I have the iPhone 4.
 
LoganT said:
Okay to be fair then: Pandora One (that's like Pandora Plus) streams at 192 KBPS too.
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Not on the iPod/iPhone. It's still 128kbps. That figure is correct, but it only applies to the Pandora One web app. I think Pandora One on the i4 just provides more hours of music instead of the 40hr limit placed on the free app itself.

However, Slacker Radio Plus is 192kbps across all eligible iDevices (iPod touch, Mac, iPhone).
 
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